Chinese New Year

Name of Holiday: Lunar New Year; Chinese New Year

The Lunar New Year, or Chinese New Year, is the oldest, longest, most festive, and most important holiday of the year for the Chinese and for many other Asians. It has traditionally been a fifteen-day festival signaling the end of winter and the coming of spring. It is a time to make a fresh start in living, reunite with family, and pay respects to ancestors. It is also a time to seek the blessings of the gods for the new year while driving out evil spirits and bad luck that might be lingering from the old.

The Lunar New Year is a movable holiday marking the first day of the first...